New Celestial and Fortune Star schedules up at the ADVDG

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Apr 2006, 20:57

Taken from the front page of Asian DVD Guide. Here's your chance to have your say::

"Joy Sales Fortune Star Releases:

As the new Fortune Star distributor in Hong Kong, Joy Sales will be releasing non-digitally remastered and digitally remastered DVDs in the near future. They are currently seeking feedback from Hong Kong movie fans:

Introduction

Ballot #1
Joy Sales would like your opinion on which films should be released on non-digitally remastered DVDs first. The films with the most votes will get released first and films with the least votes will get released at a later date. Films scheduled to be digitally remastered have been excluded from the ballot.

Ballot #2
Joy Sales would like your opinion on various DVD features."

I've never heard of any of the films. Any I should vote for? I don't see any big ones.

Stupid name for a company but they're off to a good start. I guess it's inevitable but it's still a pity they're not all being remastered.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 12 Apr 2006, 21:06

hey,

Joy Sales are reaching out and showing some initiative now when licensing the FS catalogue. That is the best thing I've seen in years. Now, if they could only live up to the fans demands that they wanted to hear 8some were outrageous even by my standards), we may have a new winner on our hands.

My votes mostly went out to old Golden Harvest classics because they really deserve a spotlight but other personal favs includea Devil Fetus, Her Vengeance, School On Fire, Doctor Vampire, Farewell China etc etc.

Has to be said that Joy Sales initial titles in 2005, the testers if you will, weren't a good indication. 5.1 only or cut to shreads for Long Arm Of The Law III and the Possessed series. That was before they went out and requested input though.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 12 Apr 2006, 21:12

I'd like to see:
-When Fortune Smiles (Stephen Chow)
-The Skyhawk (Cheng Chang-Ho)
-The Seventh Curse
-Paper Marriage
-The Lunatics
-Carry on pickpocket

on DVD someday.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 12 Apr 2006, 21:14

hey,

some of you don't count certain movie's dvd releases (Lunatics, Seventh Curse) ? But they are OOP however so....

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 12 Apr 2006, 21:15

I don't count bad releases either.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Apr 2006, 21:19

Sorry what does that mean Knetan?

What I did read into that questionnaire was they're working out what is a priority so if you prefer but don't mind for example 5.1 remixes say you don't want them.

I really don't see the point Joy Sales releasing both PAL and NTSC it will only take money away from other departments. I prefer PAL but am more than happy for them to be all NTSC. I went for the middle price point because of course we want them as cheap as possible but putting that will only mean rubbish DVDs.

I'm guessing by reading that box sets are here to stay

The problem is I'm a fan and what I want on a DVD is very different from what you Knetan want. In order of preference that is.

p.s - Bare in mind NOT all are going to be remastered so we need to see how the Remastered DVDs cope as the non-remastered ones are going to be dodgy, that much we do know. That link says 1 in a 6 will be remastered.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 12 Apr 2006, 21:24

hey,

Sorry what does that mean Knetan?

If you're referring to my reply to tom's, I mean several of the titles mentioned such as Lunatics, Seventh Curse, Carry On Pickpocket have at one point been on budget HK dvd's of acceptable quality but are oop today. I remember The Lunatics being particularly good. Good print and original mono. No need to spice up that harrowing film.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 12 Apr 2006, 23:37

The JoySales site will still not load for me, God damn it? What's wrong? Is it because I'm on a router? Then again, I have tried from elsewhere and it still wouldn't load the page. WTF???

Don't they want opinions from Germany?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 13 Apr 2006, 00:46

I hope everybody votes for SCHOOL ON FIRE.

And we need an uncut version of LAI SHI, CHINA'S LAST EUNUCH.

So many great or interesting titles to choose from.

If you're into Kung Fu nostalgia go for THE INVINCIBLE SWORD - the first Golden Harvest release ever. It's a good film too.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 13 Apr 2006, 10:47

I thought The Angry River was the first GH film

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 Apr 2006, 13:40

It works for me LD, try again. Could it be your Firewal is blocking it somehow?

Okay so I've heard of School on Fire.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 13 Apr 2006, 17:27

grim_tales wrote:I thought The Angry River was the first GH film

That was the first to go into production. Invincible Sword was the first released.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 13 Apr 2006, 19:24

Gah, rumbled!

Thanks, I didnt know that

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 24 Apr 2006, 14:40

OK, I finally got through and was able to vote. I accessed the site from work which was the only way I could reach it. Strange, huh?

Anyway... why isn't "A Moment of Romance" on that list? Who holds the rights for it? I thought it was also sold to JoySales.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 24 Apr 2006, 15:01

hey,

I heard it's being remastered for Megastar's own Golden Collection, that have included 5.1 versions only for the likes of Days Of Being Wild and Curry & Pepper.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 24 Apr 2006, 15:12

Is Curry and Pepper any good? Its' sort of a Lethal Weapon spoof isn't it (well a buddy-cop film anyway).

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 24 Apr 2006, 15:20

hey,

I would say it's Lethal Weapon inspired, not spoofed.

I've always liked it as braindead entertainment. It's one of them in between films for Stephen Chow where he's not being Stephen Chow but the banter with Jacky Cheung is all right. Action scenes are fine products of the era and basically the main selling point. The English dub included on the new dvd is apparently rare and I know some were very disappointed when it was 5.1 only.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 24 Apr 2006, 23:04

Knetan wrote:hey,

I heard it's being remastered for Megastar's own Golden Collection, that have included 5.1 versions only for the likes of Days Of Being Wild and Curry & Pepper.

Ah, that's great to hear, thanks. Hope it will be soon. I'll buy it right away upon its release day. Although the image quality is acceptable, I'd like to see it digitally remastered and with new subs.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 25 Apr 2006, 03:23

thelostdragon wrote: Although the image quality is acceptable, I'd like to see it digitally remastered and with new subs.

Don't the Megastar "Golden Collection" imprint claim that the titles are taken from remastered HD masters? New subs would be cool though.

Knetan, how are the English subs on the "Golden Collection" releases of Days of Being Wild and As Tears Go By?

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 25 Apr 2006, 05:14

hey,

yea but what does HD mean today when some sources are still extremely poor, like what we see coming from the vaults of Hui Productions? You learn to deal with what you have image-wise but to still be stuck entirely in 5.1 land is a bit uncool.

Never bought any of the Golden Collection so far. Don't be surprised if the subs aren't upgraded. Waiting for Final Justice myself.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 25 Apr 2006, 14:36

EvaUnit02 wrote:how are the English subs on the "Golden Collection" releases of Days of Being Wild

From what I've heard they're actually worse than the original subs. The picture quality wasn't much better either (some even prefferd the original MS release, though the remaster should be much cleaner).

Didn't someone here buy MS GC ATGB? I'm still wondering wheter I should get the Golden Collection or the TF1 release...

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 25 Apr 2006, 14:53

I'll buy the TF1 disc soon.
A mini-review with screencaps will follow.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 09 May 2006, 15:06

Has anybody posted this yet ?:

http://www.joysales.com.hk/DVD_list.xls

Complete list of FS titles to be released on DVD by Joy Sales.
Non-remastered titles on page 1.
Remastered titles on page 2.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 09 May 2006, 16:05

Looks as though the titles already released in HK by IVL are currently retained by that company. So no new DVDs of Police Story, OUATIC, A Better Tomorrow, etc, for the foreseeable future. Fox were planning R1 DVDs of Police Story 1&2 so that's something at least (mind you they've been alarmingly quiet since last October).

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 09 May 2006, 17:30

Haven't Fox given up on their HK range?

HungFist wrote:From what I've heard they're actually worse than the original subs.

Do you have any links? I've been wondering if it's worth getting DOBW: Remastered over my R1.

I doubt very much it will beat the R1 but it's still nice to know.